Music & camp /
Illuminates the expressive, social, and political stakes of style.
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Middletown, Connecticut :
Wesleyan University Press,
2018
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| Series: | Music/culture.
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Cover; Music & Camp; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART ONE THE SACCHARINE AND THE SACRED; 1. On Fairies (and Mothers): Beatrice Lillie Sings; 2. The Uses of Extravagance in the Hollywood Musical; 3. Musical Camp: Conrad Salinger and the Performance of Gayness in The Pirate; 4. The Camp Sincerity of Christmas Carols; 5. Camping the Sacred: Homosexuality and Religion in the Works of Poulenc and Bernstein; PART TWO FLAMING LIPS AND FLAMING HIPS; 6. Watch My Lips: The Limits of Camp in Lip-Syncing Scenes; 7. Camping Out: Queer Communities and Public Sing-Alongs
- 8. "The Booty Don't Lie" and Other Camp Truths in the Performances of Janelle MonáePART THREE GENDER AND GENITALS; 9. Strauss as the Pervert? Gendered Subjectivity, Ambiguous Meaning; 10. Poulenc's (Sub)urban Camp: L'Embarquement pour Cythère; 11. The Straight Bookends to Camp's Gay Golden Age: From Gilbert and Sullivan to Roger Vadim and Mel Brooks; 12. The Dark Side of Camp: Making Sense of Violence against Men in Christina Aguilera's "Your Body"; Bibliography; About the Contributors; Index
